Strategizing Transdisciplinarity: From Exposure Assessment to Exposure Analysis (in the United States).

制定跨学科战略：从暴露评估到暴露分析（在美国）。

• 批准号: 0724684
• 负责人: Kim Fortun
• 金额: $ 16.54万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0724684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategizing; Transdisciplinarity; Exposure; Assessment; Analysis

This study will document and analyze the emerging field of Human Exposure Science, conducting in-depth interviews and participant-observation to understand how transdisciplinary collaborations are being forged and sustained in the environmental health sciences. The aim of exposure science is to understand the complex mechanisms by which humans get exposed to disease-causing agents in their environments. The practice of exposure science demands transdisciplinary collaborations among a wide range of scientists and engineers, since it involves research problems beyond the narrow specializations of any one scientific discipline. New technologies, specifically those of personal monitoring, modeling, and biomarkers supported by different institutional mechanisms have catalyzed a rapid growth in this field in recent years. These developments in turn have transformed the very institutions and culture that have supported it. This study aims to document and analyze these developments at universities key for exposure related research and the annual meeting of the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA).Intellectual Merit. The study will contribute to the historical record of exposure science and the environmental health sciences, highlighting the emergence and sustenance of transdisciplinary collaborations in the field. The focus is on understanding how a particular group of scientists - exposure scientists - themselves understand and articulate the need for these transdisciplinary collaborations. At a general level, this study will create new knowledge about the ways transdisciplinary collaborations emerge and evolve, highlighting how technological development entwines with methodological, institutional and cultural developments.Broader Impacts. The study will result in journal articles, a book, and presentations at history and social science conferences. The study will also result in presentations at environmental health research conferences and workshops that will help participants understand the cultural and infrastructural aspects of effective transdisciplinarity. Broad impact will also result from the development of case studies for use in undergraduate courses focused on the social, ethical and legal dimensions of science and technology.

本研究将记录和分析人类暴露科学的新兴领域，进行深入访谈和参与观察，以了解如何在环境健康科学中建立和维持跨学科合作。暴露科学的目的是了解人类暴露于环境中致病因子的复杂机制。曝光科学的实践需要广泛的科学家和工程师之间的跨学科合作，因为它涉及的研究问题超出了任何一个科学学科的狭隘专业。近年来，新技术，特别是由不同制度机制支持的个人监测、建模和生物标志物技术，催化了该领域的快速发展。这些发展反过来又改变了支持它的机构和文化。本研究旨在记录和分析这些发展在大学的关键暴露相关的研究和国际暴露分析学会（ISEA）的年度会议。这项研究将有助于暴露科学和环境健康科学的历史记录，突出了该领域跨学科合作的出现和维持。重点是了解一个特定的科学家群体-暴露科学家-自己如何理解和阐明这些跨学科合作的必要性。在一般层面上，这项研究将创造关于跨学科合作出现和发展方式的新知识，突出技术发展如何与方法，制度和文化发展交织在一起。这项研究将导致期刊文章，一本书，并在历史和社会科学会议上发言。这项研究还将导致在环境卫生研究会议和研讨会上的演讲，这将有助于与会者了解有效的跨学科的文化和基础设施方面。还将产生广泛影响的个案研究的发展，用于本科课程侧重于社会，伦理和法律的层面的科学和技术。